Health insurance
By: Michael A. Morrisey.
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781567932829
Subjects: Insurance, Health -- United States; Insurance, Health -- economics -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of health insurance; title: A summary of insurance coverage; title: The demand for health insurance; title: Adverse selection; title: Underwriting and rate making; title: Risk adjustment; title: Moral hazard and prices; title: Moral hazard and utilization management; title: Selective contracting and hospitals; title: Selective contracting and physicians; title: Managed care backlash, provider consolidation, monopsony power, and most favor nation clauses; title: Premium sensitivity for health insurance; title: Compensating differentials; title: Taxes and employer-sponsored health insurance; title: Employers and agents; title: Health savings accounts and consumer driven health plans; title: The small group market; title: Regulation in the insurance market; title: The individual market; title: State high-risk pools; title: Medicare; title: Retiree coverage; title: Medicaid, crowd-out, and long term care insurance.